Voices from the Great War

Voices from the Great War

by PeterVansittart (Editor)

Synopsis

Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Sigfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain -voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the trenches with music-hall songs, and the words of poets and politicians. Linking the public and the personal, the history with the myth, his rich and unorthodox anthology forms a moving image of everything that went into the War, and culminated in its 'scalding waste of spirit'.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 318
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 05 Nov 1998

ISBN 10: 0712665439
ISBN 13: 9780712665438
Book Overview: 'This stupendous and kaleidoscopic book takes the lid off the Great War of 1914-18 and reveals... the sight, sound and smell of Armageddon. ' London Magazine.

Media Reviews
A historical echo chamber, agog with eye-witnesses, newspaper head-lines, memoirs, massacres and maniacs. He arranges his relic with moving irony. ' * Sunday Times *
This valuable and entertaining anthology. . . does not set out to de-mythologize the war. . . But it goes a long way towards decosmeticizing it, showing the savage realities in which the myth had its roots. * Observer *
Author Bio
Peter Vansittart is equally well known for his twenty-five novels and for his anthologies on subjects as diverse as London, the French Revolution, and Royalty. He has written on history, on myths, on humour and on the English Language. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honourary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He lives in London and Suffolk.